I mean we did have an overabundance of those fuckers lying around, and even exporting half of them didn’t solve the surplus – which is why late stage world war 1 war goals was about every minor german ruler trying to get his own puppet regime in eastern europe
Avtsla on
And Serbia , and Montenegro , and Russia
densoi3 on
Is the House of Orange – Nassau Germanic.
aegon-the-befuddled on
See the existing monarchies of Europe right now. Following are German.
Belgium: Saxe-Coburg und Gotha
UK: Windsor (Saxe-Coburg und Gotha)
Denmark: Glücksburg
Liechtenstein: Von Liechtenstein
Luxembourg: Nassau-Weilburg (From Bourbon Parma)
Holland: Orange-Nassau
Norway: Glücksburg
Only Monaco (Grimaldi), Spain (Bourbon), Sweden (Bernadotte) have non German houses ruling. That’s mainly cus thanks to HRE, Germany just had a lot of “Royals”. They might not have estates larger than a university campus but they were legally given style of royalty. Which made them good match for other royals. And that’s how they sniped their way into every throne. And whenever a new throne was created, again these university campus royals would be seen as good options to take it. Concept of nation and state didn’t emerge until French revolution which made it all the more easier.
zebulon99 on
Sweden went another way and chose a random french guy instead
TheHistoryMaster2520 on
France, Serbia, Sweden, Turkey, and Montenegro didn’t get German kings either in the 19th century
MrS0bek on
Well if you want to marry into a royal household you need someone of equal rank.
And germany had lots of kingly families lying around. Bonus points that they were weak/umimportant next to most big nations. So marrying into them does not uproot the diplomatic balance or creates a new powerblock other nations feel threatened by.
In addition as these are foreign spouses marrying into them doesn’t uproot the internal power balance of various noble families either.
In short if you wanted a nice royal marriage without too much political consequences, marry a german
Lower_Saxony on
The HRE, where even a small pot with some flowers has a duke ruling over it
ersjano on
I will say it. The Habsburgs fucked their way into every monarchy that they could.
densoi3 on
And for a very brief moment British India had a few Germanic emperors. So not only Europe.
Comprehensive-Fail41 on
Hey now… Sweden got a FRENCH king
laZardo on
that’s why Kaiser Willy I insisted on being “Emperor of Germany” and not just “German Emperor”
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Nobody expects the house of Savoy in Spain.
I mean we did have an overabundance of those fuckers lying around, and even exporting half of them didn’t solve the surplus – which is why late stage world war 1 war goals was about every minor german ruler trying to get his own puppet regime in eastern europe
And Serbia , and Montenegro , and Russia
Is the House of Orange – Nassau Germanic.
See the existing monarchies of Europe right now. Following are German.
Belgium: Saxe-Coburg und Gotha
UK: Windsor (Saxe-Coburg und Gotha)
Denmark: Glücksburg
Liechtenstein: Von Liechtenstein
Luxembourg: Nassau-Weilburg (From Bourbon Parma)
Holland: Orange-Nassau
Norway: Glücksburg
Only Monaco (Grimaldi), Spain (Bourbon), Sweden (Bernadotte) have non German houses ruling. That’s mainly cus thanks to HRE, Germany just had a lot of “Royals”. They might not have estates larger than a university campus but they were legally given style of royalty. Which made them good match for other royals. And that’s how they sniped their way into every throne. And whenever a new throne was created, again these university campus royals would be seen as good options to take it. Concept of nation and state didn’t emerge until French revolution which made it all the more easier.
Sweden went another way and chose a random french guy instead
France, Serbia, Sweden, Turkey, and Montenegro didn’t get German kings either in the 19th century
Well if you want to marry into a royal household you need someone of equal rank.
And germany had lots of kingly families lying around. Bonus points that they were weak/umimportant next to most big nations. So marrying into them does not uproot the diplomatic balance or creates a new powerblock other nations feel threatened by.
In addition as these are foreign spouses marrying into them doesn’t uproot the internal power balance of various noble families either.
In short if you wanted a nice royal marriage without too much political consequences, marry a german
The HRE, where even a small pot with some flowers has a duke ruling over it
I will say it. The Habsburgs fucked their way into every monarchy that they could.
And for a very brief moment British India had a few Germanic emperors. So not only Europe.
Hey now… Sweden got a FRENCH king
that’s why Kaiser Willy I insisted on being “Emperor of Germany” and not just “German Emperor”